Type Directors Club Awards 2018 Scholarships to Young Designers

At its annual award ceremonies this week at Cooper Union, the Type Directors Club presented a series of scholarships to assist the next generation of type designers toward academic and artistic success in design programs across the United States and Canada.

Anna received the award at the public ceremony from Gwen Steele of Monotype and TDC executive director Carol Wahler. At the request of Dr. Shelley Greundler, one of the scholarship selection committee members, calligrapher Fozzy Castro-Davrit of Manila was commissioned to create the scholarship certificate.

The scholarship is co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club and Monotype. Beatrice Warde (1900–1969), the TDC’s first female member, believed in the merits of education and championed them throughout her professional career with the Monotype Corporation. Therefore, when Monotype and the TDC established this scholarship in 2014, it was named in her honor. The next scholarship application cycle will begin in March 2019.

TDC vice president Elizabeth Carey Smith congratulates Beatrice Warde Scholarship recipient Anna Skoczeń at TDC awards night in New York City at The Cooper Union.

Immediately following this presentation, TDC scholarship committee chairman Karl Heine presented scholarship certificates to six students selected by schools in the United States and Belgium:

Lea Cawthorne, Fashion Institute of Technology

Hua Chen, Pratt Institute

Eva Gabrielsen, The Cooper Union

Jiyeon Kim, School of Visual Arts

Nohemy Ramos, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

Kenneth Vanoverbeke, PXL-MAD, School of Arts, Hasselt, Belgium

Yasemin Varlik, Parsons School of Design

Type Directors Club sends $1,000 directly to each school to be allocated for each recipient’s tuition expenses. In addition, Anna and the other students each receive a one-year student membership to the Type Directors Club.

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The Type Directors Club is the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen. Through our annual competition and exhibition and frequent salons and workshops, we hope to celebrate the current stars of the typographic field and educate its future leaders. Learn more about the club here or become a member to help us give back to the community and to become a part of our history.